Holy Crap, I almost died. - Page 3

wussleeQ

United States3130 Posts

January 20 2010 00:35 GMT

#41

When I was 5 I went into a public pool after having a swimming lesson. I still couldn't swim haha. Umm... I was on the stairs part where you initially get in and then I started to drift into the 4 foot waters. Being under 4 feet tall I was completely submerged and attempted to run back to the stairs. That was in vain and I continued to drift farther and farther away. I began to panic and jumped up and tried screaming but couldn't. Began to drink that chlorine filled water and was freaking out.

Then, I saw this body swimming over me and I reached up and scratched the hell out of that body. Turns out, that was my brother I was scratching and he dragged me back out. I don't remember a single thing after scratching him actually. I just remember that part and the rest is blank... I do know I'm still alive and kicking though

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Anyways,

I think there's no worse way to die than to drown/die from not being able to breathe.

Rigel of Cyrosea

Canada66 Posts

January 20 2010 00:39 GMT

#42

When I was thirteen, I was on vacation in northern Quebec, in this little town with no hospital or anything and less than a thousand people living there. My family and I went to a dinner party at the home of some relatives, and there were mixed nuts there. I ate a bunch, as up until then I had never had any allergy problems with nuts. Nothing happened for a while, and the party was boring as hell, so I decided to head back to the house where we were staying. It was about a fifteen minute walk, and almost all of it through a trail in the woods (both houses were just outside of the town). And of course, there wouldn't be anyone at our house when I got there.
After walking less than five minutes, my tongue started to feel itchy. I almost kept going, but my extreme paranoia about poisoning myself kicked in, and I headed back. Saved my life. I ended up having a severe allergic reaction to the brazil nuts in the mix. Luckily, one of my relatives is a doctor, and I was fine the next day, but if I'd gone home, I could've gone into anaphylactic shock, passed out, and died.

Navi

5286 Posts

January 20 2010 00:47 GMT

#43

On January 20 2010 07:43 CommanderFluffy wrote:
got clipped by oncoming traffic on my bike on a busy LA street, luckily i was able to wobble to sidewalk where i proceeded to crash and eat shit. I remember not being able to get up for a few minutes, but i got away with a heavily bruised shoulder and just some cuts.

i had exactly the same incident, 'cept an asshole uni pedestrian stepped on me.

i made eye contact with him, and then he walked away akwardly.

then when i went to the doctor, i got a worse injury from being stepped on in exactly the wrong place than i did by getting hit by the car (the person who drove it stopped b4 impact n helped etc.)

I was also surfing one time, when this chobo lady swerves into me and almost proceeds to knock me out with her surfboard (the waves were strong).

Lastly, when my fam was moving (when I was about 12) we loaded up the family car with all our stuff, but found out the electricity had run out (of the car).

We proceeded to let the car full of junk down 45 degree slant without someone anywhere near a brake, thinking that three people behind the car could slow it down etc.

Needless to say, all three of us nearly got crushed, but the middle one (my bro) pulled some bruce lee shit and jumped way clear.

overall, even though my experiences were shitty, I was lucky in surviving them

DeathSpank

United States1029 Posts

January 20 2010 00:49 GMT

#44

On January 20 2010 08:40 I_Love_Bacon wrote:

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That's real common.

Wait, what?

oh yea, I was like 3 or 4 and I was dancing on my kitchen chair. I fell and the bottom of my chin hit that blade like thing thats at the bottom of older refrigerators. Took 13 stiches and an army of nurses. All I remember was dancing on the chair then blacking out.

Jayme

United States5866 Posts

January 20 2010 00:50 GMT

#45

Investigated an IED in iraq

Opened the pack, the blasting cap went off but the IED didn't actually detonate. I was totally freaked the fuck out but calm at the same time.

semioldguy

United States7488 Posts

January 20 2010 01:04 GMT

#46

A near death experience:

I hydroplaned a car on the freeway, lost control, span 720 degrees across four lanes of traffic, miraculously didn't crash into anyone else, and finally collided with the center divider without bouncing back into traffic. The car was totaled.

Traveler

United States451 Posts

January 20 2010 01:11 GMT

#47

In third grade we took a class trip the the sand dunes in Colorado.
While we were climbing them the wind picked up enough that while I was walking on the edge of a 50 deep pit of sand in order to reach the next dune the wind blew me and my 2 friends down into it. Because it was so windy the edges of the pit were getting blown inwards and so all the sand was avalanching down so we weren't able to climb out and started getting buried by the massive amounts of sand falling inwards. My friend got buried all the way up to his chin because he was stuck below us and I couldn't move from my shoulders down.
Luckily the wind changed directions and one of the parents from the trip got there in time to pull us out.

Zona

40426 Posts

January 20 2010 01:29 GMT

#48

I was fishing on a large calm (so we thought) lake with my family on a tiny rented outboard, and we had found a great spot for pickerel. But after a day's catch, the weather turned really stormy with pretty large waves for our outboard. Worse, when we were headed back, we weren't sure which way was the right one. I've never gone fishing on an outboard ever since...

Hmm, I didn't tell that story in a very interesting manner, did I.

LiminalMadness

Germany88 Posts

January 20 2010 01:37 GMT

#49

We had this super steep hill in the town i grew up in with a road going downhill, and the road was in a really bad condition.

The kickass kids we were at Age 11 me and two friends came to the awesome conclusion to go on top of the hill and ride down on our rollerskates.
Well, about half way down i lost control and according to my friends had a really bad looking crash and rolled quite far downhill. I lost consciousness at some point and my tongue blocked my airway. My friends were on top and also started coming down when they saw me not moving, they made it without crashing and also some guy who was working in the vines next to the road came and helped me. Good thing my parents always told me to wear a helm and protectors, the crash itself only got me a sprained arm, some wholes in my clothes and some missing skin, but that airway blockage could have been quite unhealthy.

Ranix

United States666 Posts

January 20 2010 01:49 GMT

#50

Nothing big like some of these posts- the closest I've come to death I think was by me totaling a car just going 40 mph... I just ran into the back of someone is all.

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

January 20 2010 01:51 GMT

#51

I got in a car crash the day before new years eve(I.E. a couple weeks ago).

Spun out in the snow on the highway and hit the concrete meridian. My friend got a bit of whiplash but we were all okay.

My poor car... =[

sigh...

ketomai

United States2789 Posts

January 20 2010 01:54 GMT

#52

The closest near death experience was jumping off the end of the deep pool when I was 5. But, the time where I've been most terrified of 'dying' was when I was racing inside my house w/ my brothers and sisters. I tried to look cool by putting my arms back and leaning down so I was aerodynamic (I was 7), and I rammed my eye smack middle into armrest protruding from a very large heavy chair full speed. I couldn't see anything for like 5 min, and I was so scared that I had gone blind in one eye. I was absolutely terrified and thought I was gonna live the rest of my life blind. I've never recalled being more terrified than that moment.

wishbones

Canada2600 Posts

January 20 2010 02:02 GMT

#53

I was at a Midway Arcade here in Ottawa, I won tons of candy with my tickets. I loved the hard ones u gotta suck on. So anywho, im on my bike now and the way home is about 30-40 minutes, so i figure have some candy, suck.. suck.. eat.. Ok so i get to my backyard, i open the door and iu start to choke on one of my candies, my moms boyfriend was there he was giving me the hime lift manover, and it wasnt working cus one of my arms was not above his, so he was squeezing me and 1 arm, causing it to be ineffective so for about thirty seconds of this i tapped him and lifted one arm, and plop came out the Candy, omg i was so lucky not to have had this happen anywhere 1+minute sooner, or i would have died. I never eat hard candy anymore, its too risky.

Edit: I almost drowned at the wave pool when I was young, i got real close to the big black thingys, that make waves, and I couldnt swim away, I dont think those would have harmed me, but i wasnt able to swim in the intense waves, my mom saved me tho.

eatmyshorts5

United States1530 Posts

January 20 2010 02:12 GMT

#54

I was once climbing a mountain in China. When i reached the peak there was another part of the mountain sticking out and to reach it you had to walk across these weird beams that connected from the peak i was standing on and this peak. The beams were only about a foot wide, and nothing to hold onto and below the beams was a 40 foot drop and sharp rocks. It had been raining all day and my dad walked across first. I then walked across and slipped on the beam, but I unwisely grabbed my dad potentially pulling both of us down, but he had his feet planted and I was very light at the time so he was able to stop my fall. Probably the scariest moment of my life.

jello_biafra

United Kingdom6642 Posts

January 20 2010 02:12 GMT

#55

It's nothing short of a miracle that I'm still alive with the way I used to cross roads when I was younger, so many close calls...

I remember having a bad experience the first time I ever went swimming (at least when I was old enough to know what the hell was going on), thought I'd learned to swim by just screwing around in the shallow end and immediately decided to head for the deep end, as soon the water was deep enough so that I could no longer stand I realized that actually I really couldn't swim at all. Struggled to keep my head above water for a short while when this random float came past which I grabbed on to and survived lol.

Done some pretty precarious climbing in my time, almost slipped a number of times which could have meant potential death but probably just broken bones in most cases.

When I was about 11 I threw a snowball at some guy's window, seconds later he appeared at his front door with a baseball bat and proceeded to chase me, the guy was pretty big and really mad, was lucky to escape.

[NyC]HoBbes

United States803 Posts

January 20 2010 02:13 GMT

#56

My school, like many schools, holds a huge science-fair type thing near the end of every year. One of my friends decided last year that for physics, he was going to build an authentic medieval crossbow. One fine spring day, he decided to test this crossbow (thankfully without metal tips on the bolts) on our football field. The door between the inside of the school and the athletic field has no windows. To prevent from shooting anyone, he had placed a sign on the inside of said door that read "CAUTION, EXPERIMENT IN PROGRESS, DO NOT USE." Somehow, over the course of the day, either this sign had fallen off, or some asshole thought it would be funny to move it. Either way, I opened the door to be greeted with a crossbow bolt to the chest. This bolt proceeded to do what crossbow bolts are designed to do, and puncture my chest. Thankfully, the bolt was entirely made of wood, and hit a rib, meaning I got away with only a highly painful, but not dangerous puncture wound. An inch off, though, and crossbow bolt+internal organ would have been a very bad outcome indeed.

goswser

United States3548 Posts

January 20 2010 02:23 GMT

#57

dude did that thing with the plane really happen? if so then thats really crazy lol. I never knew so many of tl had brushed with death . . . good thing they were all brushes with death or there'd only be half as many people on iccup to play starcraft with lol.

Kerotan

England2111 Posts

January 20 2010 02:24 GMT

#58

Closest I have ever come to dying, (which isn't very close) is being hit by a flying drain pipe/gutter which flew over the back of my head, after being ripped off a building by the wind. Chances are it would have knocked me out cold, but not killed me.

And that one time when I camped in a tent, under a tree, in the biggest thunderstorm I have ever been in before or since, that's the only time I have really feared for my life.

RaDe

United States9 Posts

January 20 2010 02:36 GMT

#59

this isnt me but its my best friend so il post the story. me and a group of 7 of my friends were up at new hampshire for the summer. hanging around playing firsbee in the lake untill my friend through the frissbee over my head and i told him to go get it. now he isnt a great swimmer and the frissbee is pretty far so when he got there he went under and none of us herd him. and he was supposdly under for around 3 mintues untill we noticed and 3 of my friends dived in to get him and i found him and brought him to shore. now luckily one of my friends was a life guard and same as his dad. so we pulled him to shore and he started performing cpr on his lifless body. yes dead his dad who has been a er nurse for 30 years said that he was dead as anybody he has ever seen and we called his dad and they bother performed cpr unitll spontenous respirtation. the scariest moment of my life

eXigent.

Canada2419 Posts

January 20 2010 02:49 GMT

#60

Closest I came to death happened in November of this past year. I spent the weekend with the flu, and it progressed as the days went on, and continued to get worse. I was at the point of screaming out in pain, literally loud enough for the other tenants on my apartment floor to hear. After spending 8hours on the 3rd day in agony, my girlfriend finally had enough, and demanded we goto the hospital. I live about 5 blocks from the hospital, and being the stubborn idiot I am, I said it was not worth the $300 bill for an ambulance ride (for 5 blocks), so we WALKED. Well, actually my GF basically held me up, and drug me most of the way there, while I dove in and out of madness from the pain.

We got to the front entrance, and I collapsed, unable to continue on anymore. Quickly I was placed into a wheelchair and rushed to the ER. Not much later, and under heavy sedation I was told that I had to undergo emergency appendectomy surgery.

Apparently my appendix burst open inside me over the weekend, and what I thought was the flu, was actually all of the debris poisoning my blood. I had gangreen all around the base of the appendix, and was told that had I decided to ignore the pain for 1 more day, I wouldnt be alive in the morning.

Pretty intense stuff.

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